The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 40
Now, if you wish to know more you must make me a gold ring—yes, six gold rings to grace my pretty fingers.”
Who acts: you, six gold rings · What happens: wish, know, make, grace · To what, where: me, pretty fingers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, six gold rings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 grace | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wish | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 grace | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 make | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ring | compound |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | xcomp |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 17 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 23 grace | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 yes | punct |
| 19 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 rings | nummod |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rings | compound |
| 21 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grace | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 grace | mark |
| 23 | grace | grace | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fingers | amod |
| 26 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grace | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 grace | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 grace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | must | you | me | a gold ring xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | |||
| 4 | grace | to-infinitive | six gold rings | my pretty fingers | now | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme finger=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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